Help with iron sights
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JimP
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On your rifle do you have a screw on the front sight that can be loosened where you can lower or raise the front sight?
badgerbob
Active Member
I have three of those rifles. You must not have the right sight, front or rear. All of mine are over 100 yards when rear is maxed high.
Colorado Cowboy
Super Moderator
You can install a new lower front sight. Remove the front sight (If I remember right, they come out drifted to the right as the dovetail is slightly angled). Put it on a flat surface and measure the height. Got to Brownell's or Midway and buy the next higher sight and install it. Should solve your problem.
No screw on the front sight. But on further investigation I discovered the is one more adjustment up. Nevertheless, it seems I should be able be in the middle at 50 yds.
JimP
Administrator
Whatever happens you need to lower the front sight. The only time that I have seen where you need to max out the elevation ramp is for those longer shots 200 + yards.
If your front sight is a ramp you can try filing it down, if it is a bead you would be better off looking for a lower one.
If your front sight is a ramp you can try filing it down, if it is a bead you would be better off looking for a lower one.
Yep. Went to Marbles website where they have a chart to determine which sight will provide the amount of change you need based on the height of the existing one. Just placed the order.
Colorado Cowboy
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JimP
Administrator
If you know that it is shooting 2 inches low at 50 yards then just adjust to hit where you want to hit.
I have a 41 magnum pistol that its sights have no more adjustment and it shoots 4" high at 50 yards. I just figure that into my sight picture before I pull the trigger.
I have a 41 magnum pistol that its sights have no more adjustment and it shoots 4" high at 50 yards. I just figure that into my sight picture before I pull the trigger.